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is the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country.

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refers to the first sentence of Section 1 in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. This clause represented Congress's reversal of that portion of the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision that declared that African Americans were not and could not become citizens of the United States or enjoy any of the privileges and immunities of citizenship.

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an extraordinary power exercised (usually by the executive branch) in the prosecution of a war and involving an extension of the powers that the government normally has in peacetime

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is an enumerated power listed in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3)

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policies that constrain local authorities from assisting in federal immigration enforcement

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is the provision of a minimal level of well-being and social support for all citizens, sometimes referred to as public aid

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An authority possessed without its being derived from another. It is a right, ability or faculty of doing a thing, without receiving that right, ability or faculty from another.

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per the IRS, you are considered a ________ ______ if you meet the requirements of the "green card test" and the "substantial presence test"

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is a judicial response to the conflict between federal and state legislation. When it is clearly established that a federal law preempts a state law, the state law must be declared invalid.

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is a limited form of relief for certain permanent residents and nonpermanent residents

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The supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power by which an independent state is governed and from which all specific political powers are derived; the intentional independence of a state, combined with the right and power of regulating its internal affairs without foreign interference.

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is the process by which U.S. citizenship is granted to a foreign citizen or national after he or she fulfills the requirements established by Congress in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).

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aliens who are inadmissible and are ineligible to receive visas and ineligible to be admitted to the United States:

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is a common-law rule, under which a judge, even though s/he has an interest in the case, has a duty to hear and decide the case if it cannot otherwise be heard

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are constitutional powers assigned to one government agency, but delegated to another agency with express permission

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